I also occasionally find that the "p" programs freeze the first time I run them after installing a new version.
Did you try killing it and running again? Run from a terminal too, in case it produces some useful output._________________DEATH TO SPREADSHEETS
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aborting...
cat: /root/.pbackup/tmp/pbackup-splash: No such file or directory
cat: /root/.pbackup/tmp/pbackup-splash: No such file or directory
cat: /root/.pbackup/tmp/pbackup-splash: No such file or directory
cat: /root/.pbackup/tmp/pbackup-splash: No such file or directory
cat: /root/.pbackup/tmp/pbackup-splash: No such file or directory
cat: /root/.pbackup/tmp/pbackup-splash: No such file or directory
cat: /root/.pbackup/tmp/pbackup-splash: No such file or directory
cat: /root/.pbackup/tmp/pbackup-splash: No such file or directory

I am not sure what happened. I was busy with so many things that something I probably touched caused it. Your solution worked though. I deleted that folder /root/.pbackup and then reinstalled and it loaded up immediately.

Yes thanks haha. I bought a motherboard with a built in raid controller and you might figure it would automatically run a mirror but no it doesn't so I'm trying both pbackup and pmirror to set it up. Not sure which one will do the job better so doing some tests right now and since that error log didn't show up like you said with a simple button click then I will search the location you mentioned..

I have a machine I want to reinstall, but before I do I wanted to back it up. The current linux is hosed, but a quick boot with a 4.3.1 CD allows me access to all of the files, currently in /mnt/home. I have a 1.5T hard drive (formatted in NTFS, unfortunately, and I really don't want to reformat for this) connected via USB as /mnt/sdc1.

I've set up a full backup of /mnt/home targed to HD /mnt/sdc1. When I run the backup, the pupbck-files, -dirs, and -links files look fine in geany (although pupback-files is 51M...), but the backup stalls after creating the first directory structure /mnt/sdc1/20100730_backup/Backup_2010-08-01_13.04.49/mnt and hangs there...the other day, I let it go overnight and no other directories or files were added. (FWIW, /mnt/home/mnt/ is empty, so <<backup>>/mnt should be, too.)

Is there a hard limit on number of files for pbackup? Is it having a canary writing to the NTFS drive? Is it just my bad karma? I know I can use tar to get where I need to go, but pbackup looked so slick...

I have stopped the evolving of Pbackup. - 2 years since last update.
This version is just a quick fix to get it going with the latest gtkdialog.
The code is in such a bad shape that Puppy should get a new backup program. - Your challenge!!!!